Third, Wei Zhongxian is good at government affairs:

At the beginning, Zhu Yijun of Mingshenzong had been in power for a long time, and he was tired of political affairs, and he did not approve many chapters. The courtiers gradually established the portal, and they fashioned it as a fashion to make radical and shocking remarks, and used the dispute over the state to denounce the palace ban.

Minister Zaifu was impeached and attacked by the officials, and was often forced to retire due to illness. Gu Xiancheng, the secretary of the ministry, lectured at Donglin Academy, and Dr. Haineshi obeyed him.

The name "Donglin" began from here. Later, three cases, "Strike", "Red Pill", and "Moving the Palace", occurred.

Those who opposed the Donglin Party were betrayed by the people.

In the early years of the Apocalypse, almost all the ministers were dismissed and dismissed, and people of insight were already worried that chaos would occur if they were too radical.

After Wei Zhongxian's forces were formed, his party members really tried to rely on him to squeeze out the Donglin party.

And Xu Dahua, Huo Weihua, and Sun Jie first attached themselves to Wei Zhongxian, and Liu Yihuojing and Zhou Jiamo were all impeached by Sun Jie and left.

But at that time, Ye Xianggao and Han Huoguang were assisting the government, Zou Yuanbiao, Zhao *xing, Wang Ji, Gao Panlong and other officials were in high positions, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Huang Zunsu and others were talking about the road, they all tried their best to preside over the Qing discussion, and Wei Zhongxian failed to succeed.

In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Zhu Youxiao commented on the Qingling Gong, and sealed Wei Zhongxian's nephew as the commander of the Jinyi Guard

。 commented on Shen Shiyang, Wei Zhongxian, and Hakka traffic to Hui Shiyang and Shangshu Wang Ji in the matter, and they were all demoted. It happened to be hailing in early summer, and Zhou Zongjian said that the hail was out of season, which was caused by Wei Zhongxian's slander and evil.

The writer Wen Zhenmeng and the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple also said this one after another, and they were all deposed.

In the spring of the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), Wei Zhongxian introduced the private Wei Guangwei as a scholar. He ordered the imperial historian Guo Gong to attack Zhou Zongjian, Liu Yi Huojing, Zou Yuanbiao, Yang Lian, Zhou Chaorui and others to protect Xiong Tingbi, saying that they were protecting traitors and misleading the country.

Zhou Zongjian refuted that Guo Gong was instructed by Wei Zhongxian, and Yu Shi Fang also helped Zongjian attack Guo Gong and Wei Zhongxian, but neither of them won.

In the autumn of that year, Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian and Hak's son Hou Guoxing to grant hereditary succession. Dong Hanru, the secretary of the military department, the mid-range note of the matter, and the imperial history Wang Si have advised one after another, but Zhu Youxiao did not obey.

Wei Zhongxian became even more unscrupulous, increasing the internal exercise army to 10,000 people, wearing armor and entering and leaving the palace, and arbitrarily acting as a threat and abuse. He falsely passed on the holy decree to give Zhu Changluo's chosen servant Zhao to death. Concubine Yu Zhang was pregnant, and the Hakka conspiracy killed her.

and removed the title of Concubine Li. Queen Zhang's pregnancy, and the Hakka family planned to abort her. Zhu Youxiao therefore lacked heirs.

Other victims were Feng Guiren and other palace concubines, as well as eunuchs Wang Guochen, Liu Kejing, Ma Jian and others. The secret of the forbidden palace cannot be understood in detail. In the winter of this year, Wei Zhongxian also led the affairs of the East Factory.

Fourth, Wei Zhongxian fought with the Donglin party

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), Fu Mukui befriended Wei Zhongxian's nephew Fu Yingxing as a brother, and wrote a letter to falsely accuse Wang Wenyan of Zhongshu, and connected Zuo Guangdou and Wei Dazhong.

Wang Wenyan was thrown into the Zhenfu Division Prison and will be charged with trumped-up charges. Liu Qiao, who was in charge of the Zhenfu Division, accepted Ye Xianggao's teaching and did not convict Wang Wenyan. Wei Zhongxian was furious, removed Liu Qiao from his post, and replaced him with a private Xu Xianchun.

At this time, the imperial history Li Yingsheng gave advice on the matter of internal exercises, and gave Huo Shoudian advice because Wei Zhongxian begged for a plaque in the ancestral hall, and Liu Tingzuo of the imperial history gave advice to Wei Zhongxian to indiscriminately add shade and seal, and Shen Weibing gave advice to Shen Weibing in the matter, and Wei Zhongxian was reprimanded for falsely preaching the holy decree.

So Yang Lian, the deputy capital of Yushi, was very angry and impeached Wei Zhongxian for the twenty-four major crimes.

After the submission was submitted, Wei Zhongxian was frightened and asked Han Huang for mediation. Han Huang didn't agree, so he ran to Zhu Youxiao to cry and resign from the East Factory.

And the Hakka family explained to him from the side, and Wang Tiqian and others also protected him together. Zhu Youxiao was stunned to discern the truth, so he comforted him gently, and the next day he called back Yang Lian's recital and reprimanded him bitterly.

Yang Lian was reprimanded, and more than 70 people, including Wei Dazhong, Chen * Xun and Xu Yuqing, Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing, Chen Daoheng, Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, and Yue Yuansheng, the waiter, played Wei Zhongxian's illegal deeds one after another.

Ye asked Weng Zhengchun, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to send Wei Zhongxian back to his private residence to quell public accusations. Zhu Youxiao did not allow it.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian was very angry and wanted to kill all the dissidents. Gu Bingqian secretly recorded the people Wei Zhongxian hated and handed them to him, asking him to denigrate them one by one.

Wang Tiqian also proposed to use the court staff to threaten the courtiers. Soon, Langzhong Wan Huojing of the Ministry of Industry wrote a letter accusing Wei Zhongxian, and he was immediately killed by the cane.

Wei Zhongxian insulted Ye Xianggao on the pretext of the imperial history Lin Ruzhuo, Ye Xianggao resigned because of this, and Lin Ruzhuo was also beaten with a cane, and the courtiers were very afraid.

For a time, those who were reprimanded included Zhao *xing, the secretary of the ministry, Gao Panlong, the imperial history of Zuodu, Chen Yuting, the servant of the ministry, and dozens of people before and after Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, and Wei Dazhong.

Later, he expelled Han Huoguang and Li Banghua, a squire of the military department. When an upright man leaves the court, he shakes the leaves of a dead tree. Wei Zhongxian then falsely preached the holy decree and used the old example to transfer the Taoist officials.

Zhu Tongmeng and Guo Yunhou were the servants of Shaoqing, Lu Pengyun and Sun Jie were the Dali Temple, Huo Weihua and Guo Xingzhi were restored, Xu Jinglian, Jia Jichun, and Yang Weiyuan were the imperial history, and Xu Zhaokui, Wang Shaohui, Qiao Yingjia, Xu Shaoji, Ruan Dacheng, and others were used as his minions.

Soon, Cui Chengxiu, who was to be sent off, was appointed as the imperial history. Cui Chengxiu then fabricated "Tianjianlu", "Comrade Record", etc., and Wang Shaohui also fabricated "Dianjianglu", all of which were headed by Zou Yuanbiao, Gu Xiancheng, Ye Xianggao, Liu Yihuojing, etc.

And all the people who were not attached to Wei Zhongxian were snare in, and they were pointed out as Donglin Party members and dedicated to Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian was very happy, so these villains flattered Wei Zhongxian even more, and joined hands to attack the Donglin Party.

At the beginning, the courtiers debated the three cases and the Jingcha and Xiong Tingbi cases in Xinhai and Guihai in the past two years, and Wei Zhongxian did not participate.

His party members wanted to use Wei Zhongxian's power to squeeze out those upright people, so they successively joined Wei Zhongxian, claiming to be their righteous son, and said: "The Donglin Party will want to harm your old man." ”

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian also wanted to be happy. Yushi Zhang Ne, Ni Wenhuan, Li Lusheng in the matter, Cao Qincheng, the director of the Ministry of Works, etc., competed to retaliate against good people, and Yushi Liang Menghuan revived Wang Wenyan's case and tortured him to death in the Zhenfu Division.

Xu Xianchun compiled the documents of the prisoners' confessions, and the words were connected with more than 20 people, including Zhao *xing and Yang Lian, so that they were either removed from their posts or sent to war.

He also arrested Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Yuan Huazhong, Gu Dazhang and other six people, implicated them in the Xiong Tingbi case, threw them into prison, and tortured them to death.

He also killed Xiong Tingbi, beat his in-law Wu Yuzhong to death, and removed more than 50 people, including Shangshu Li Zongyan, Zhang Wenda, and Shilang Gongnai, from their posts, and the DPRK and China institutions were empty.

And specially summoned Qi Shijiao, Liu Shuzu and others as the imperial history. Anyone who has a personal relationship with Wei Zhongxian has to be promoted, so Wei Zhongxian's henchmen are all over the government and the opposition.

Fifth, Wei Zhongxian harmed the world

At that time, the arrest personnel of the East Factory were rampant, and all the places they visited, regardless of whether the situation was false or real, were all in shambles.

Cousin Li Chengen, the son of the eldest princess of Ning'an, had utensils given by the princess in his home, and Wei Zhongxian falsely accused him of stealing forbidden items such as Chengyu clothing and sentenced him to death.

When Wu Huaixian read Yang Lian's recital, he high-fived and praised, and the house slave denounced him, but Huaixian was killed and his home was raided. Wu Ben Jiang Yingyang sued Xiong Tingbi and was immediately executed.

Occasionally, the folk words offended Wei Zhongxian, and they were arrested and killed, and even skinned and tongues cut, and the number of people killed was innumerable.

This year, remembering the merits of the door, Wei Zhongxian got the third class of grace, and the governor of the shade was also known. He also appointed his uncle Wei Zhide as the governor.

Fu Yingxing was promoted to the governor of Zuodu, and his mother was commended, and Wei Liangqing was appointed as the secretary of the brocade and the guard, and was in charge of the affairs of the Fusi of Nanzhen.

In February of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the emperor's honor guard was formed, and Wei Zhongxian was able to shelter the governor of the city, and he sent his henchman Li Yongzhen to pretend to be the eunuch Li Shi of Zhejiang, arresting and punishing Zhou Qiyuan, the former governor of Yingtian, and Gao Panlong, Zhou Zongjian, Miao Changqi, Zhou Shunchang, Huang Zunsu, etc., who had resigned and returned to their hometowns.

Gao Panlong threw himself into the water and died, and Zhou Shunchang and others died in prison. When the people of Suzhou saw that Zhou Shunchang was arrested, they were very upset, so they killed two school captains, and the governor Mao Yilu arrested Yan Peiwei and five others and executed them. Xu Zhaokui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, managed the prison case, and anyone who Wei Zhongxian hated was sentenced to a heavy sentence.

Wei Zhongxian listened to Huo Weihua's advice again, and ordered Gu Bingqian and others to edit the "Three Dynasties Classics", and tried their best to slander the Donglin Party. Yushi Xu Fuyang asked to demolish the lecture academy to eliminate the roots of the party.

Yushi Lu Chengqin asked to erect the Donglin Party Monument. People at home are holding their breath. Huo Weihua then taught Wei Zhongxian to take credit for taking credit in the border defense.

Wu Changchun, a man from Liaoyang, visited a prostitute, said some nonsense, and was captured by Dongchang. Xu Xianchun tortured him and punished him, deliberately exaggerating and saying: "Changchun is an enemy spy, if he is not captured, there will be chaos, Lai Dongchang's subordinates are loyal and witty, and have made miraculous achievements." ”

Zhu Youxiao enshrined Wei Zhongxian's nephew Liangqing as Su Ningbo, gave him the mansion and Zhuangtian, and awarded him an iron coupon. Wang Shaohui, the secretary of the ministry, please respect his ancestors, and Zhu Youxiao decreed that Wei Zhongxian was given the four generations as Su Ningbo.

Wei Zhongxian also sent his henchmen eunuchs Liu Yingkun, Tao Wen, and Ji Yong to guard Shanhaiguan and collect military power. and then give him a meritorious service, one of the governor of the shadow and one of the hereditary Jinyi Guards. Pan Ruzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, asked Wei Zhongxian to build an ancestral hall.

Xue Zhen, the governor of Cangchang, said that the grassland caught fire, and Lai Wei Zhongxian rescued him and was able to do harmless. As a result, people who sang praises for him continued one after another, and ancestral halls in various places began to be built from then on.